SOC201H1 Lecture : SOC201H1-Oct 31, 2011
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90-100% -- 8% of students in the class. Student grades will be posted on monday, november 7, 2011. Talk to your t. a. , perhaps repeat talk with t. a. Weekly plan delay gratification keep in fun activities. Sacred what is regarded/experienced as outside of everyday life. Extraordinary, transcendent, as opposed to what is profane. Religion set of answers to problems of human existence. Problems of suffering and death, above all else. Religion justification or consolation for suffering and meaning for death. Religion shades over into other areas of human understanding. Another difficulty: belief in one god: christianity, islam, judaism, other times belief in multiple gods: hinduism; no gods: buddhism, animism (belief that things that are not living have a soul--#4) Soc201h october 31, 2011: one possibility: harder to maintain belief in a single religion when our beliefs are relativized through exposure to other cultures. Examples: biology: weber: difference between people and the sciences.
